Quote Originally Posted by JETAlone01 View Post
The meanings of port, starboard, fore, and aft are common knowledge. Your lack of basic vocabulary does not a bad translation make.
They're not common knowledge. They're common knowledge if you've been around boats. Granted, port star fore & aft are mentioned elsewhere in the game, but these are not "common knowledge" terms. They're specialized nautical & aeronautical terms that don't appear in the top 5000 english word frequency list (basic vocabulary is around the 2k top frequency). This is like saying intractable, idempotent and omnifarious are "common knowledge".